January 2021 Sock KAL - Finished Posts

[lovestostitch]

This thread is for your finished socks. Posts should be finished socks only but you may give compliments as Comments below the post. We do this to make it easier to pick a winner with a random number generator. Please feel free to chat away in our Chat thread.

You are eligible for up to four entries. Please make a separate post for each entry. You may post the following entries:

1. For the first sock (or two through the heels) - any socks started this month count
2. For a completed pair - any socks count. Socks started before the beginning of this month may be finished and entered as a completed pair.
3. For using a pattern that goes with the monthly theme. Please include the name of your pattern and how it coordinates with the theme.
4. For using the featured color.

Our theme for this month: What do you see outside your window? For your theme picture, include a picture looking out your window and tell us how your view inspired your pattern choice.

Our color this month: Any color you see outside your window.



The prize for this month is a skein of fingering weight yarn spun by one of our members - Pegg Thomas Thank you Pegg!

[knitter131]

I finally finished last month’s socks,

[rkennell]

So cute! I love the colors!

[Pegg Thomas]

I like the stitch pattern in the leg. Is that a mock cable?

[knitter131]

Thanks! Pegg Thomas yes, a mock cable. I like to use a k3, P2 rib. Sl1, K2, PSSO two knit sts. Then next row K1, YO, K1 to add the stitch back in.

[Kokoriffic]

Finished up a pair last night. I’ll be gifting these to one of my sisters who loves the color sapphire blue.

[Kokoriffic]

They are helical knit, no self striping. The sapphire blue is used throughout and I alternated the light blue and the speckled every 20 rounds. I wish I had pre-planned for the afterthought heel placement so that it was more centered in the stripe, but oh well.

[KnitsWithHorses]

These are awesome.

[lovestostitch]

I think what you did is great.

[KnitsWithHorses]

Finished through the heels.

[Pegg Thomas]

Love all that texturing.

[Kokoriffic]

I really like that colorway and how it’s working out with that pattern. Beautiful.

[KnitsWithHorses]

Thanks y'all. 🤗

[KnitsWithHorses]

Finished pair!

[KnitsWithHorses]

Thank you Kokoriffic ☺

[qfknit]

KnitsWithHorses - Just looking at those socks makes me smile!

[KnitsWithHorses]

qfknit Me too! And they are super comfortable too! 😁😁😁

[KnitsWithHorses]

One for theme.

[KnitsWithHorses]

Pegg Thomas It's a take on a k1 p2 rib.
Row 1) K2 P1
Row 2) K1 P2
Super simple!

[Pegg Thomas]

KnitsWithHorses Seriously? It looks like it changes as you go along. Must be how the color changes affect it.

[KnitsWithHorses]

Pegg Thomas That's it exactly. I love when that happens. I wish I could say I was clever enough to realize it ahead of time and plan it that way but I just got lucky. I wanted a bit of texture but I knew that an intricate pattern wouldn't show up with the colors. I almost just did a regular rib but I'm glad I did this instead.

[KnitsWithHorses]

And for color i even got a sunset picture that includes the pink in my yarn even though now that they are knit up you don't really see the pink in the yarn. When it was in the skein it looked like there was way more pink than that. 😁

[lovestostitch]

Your socks are beautiful and coordinate perfectly with your view.

[KnitsWithHorses]

lovestostitch Thank you! 😊

[lovestostitch]

Finished through the heels.

[Kokoriffic]

The colors and that texture really go well together. Very pretty.

[KnitsWithHorses]

I agree with Kokoriffic that the color and texture are working together very nicely. Going to be pretty!

[Spice2s]

First sock of the month completed.

[KnitsWithHorses]

Very pretty!

[lovestostitch]

Don't forget to post a picture of your view if your sock color coordinates with your view. I can't wait to see your view if you have those cheery colors to look at this time of year.

[KnitsWithHorses]

It's kind of sunrise colors.

[Spice2s]

2nd Entry - Completed pair of socks.

[Spice2s]

Entry for option #4 - theme color.

Outside my window I see many winter colors. There is the white/gray of the snow and the gray of the sky. The red and blue roofs of my bird feeders. Also, we have lots of dogwood bushes and barberry bushes, which have red stems and red flowers/berries in the winter. My socks exhibit all of these colors.

[KnitsWithHorses]

Beautiful view and beautiful socks!

[lovestostitch]

Beautiful colors in your view! I love shrubs that turn red for winter.

[lovestostitch]

Finished pair.

[Pegg Thomas]

Love them!

[lovestostitch]

Theme - view from my window

[KnitsWithHorses]

The colors are perfect and that is a nice looking pair of socks!

[Spice2s]

very nice!

[lovestostitch]

Pattern: Thermal Sock

[Pegg Thomas]

Finally got my socks done! There is nothing - nothing! - more boring than knitting white stockinette stitch. But I like how they turned out and I think they go with my photo. Pattern is Pine Tree Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...e-tree-socks-4 and not the easiest to read that I've ever used.

[Sings4joy]

These are beautiful!! They'd go so well with a mitts pattern that was given out free during a, what you call it when several yarn shops have an event where you go from one to another, in Seattle a year or so ago!

[Pegg Thomas]

Not sure what they call it for yarn, but for beer, it's called a "pub crawl."

[crosstitchlinda]

Around here it is a Yarn Crawl! They are fun. I did one in MAryland a few years ago, and it was so much fun! My DD 2 lives there and the crawl coincided with our last weekend while we were there for granddaughter's birth. I spent 6 weeks helping out -- preemie, sick mom, and baby who only slept while being held!! I ended up shipping about 4 boxes of yarn home